Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-04-13

of organic matter, snd ~ per cent Of.
ash; the organic matter contains II per
cent Of albuminous or transforming
matter, So per cent Of starch, sugar and
gum, and 234 per cent of woody fiber.
The grain has been found most useful
when ground with corn in the proper
ton Of 8 bushels or 100 pounds, with
5 bushels, or 800 pounds, of corn.-N.
Y Times.
VEGETABLE SOUP.
Three pounds coarse beef, minced,
three quarts of cold water, two carrots,
two turnips, n onion, minced, three
stalks of celery, can Of tomatoes, quar-
ter OF a cabbage, n root of satisfy,
two tablespoonful of chopped parsley,
pepper and salt, a teaspoonful Of sugar.
Put beef and water together and bring
slowly to a boil. Simmer gently for
four hours. Pepper and salt and set
away, meat and liquor together, until
next day. Take off the fat and strain
out the meat. Pare and cut turnips,
carrots, celery, and satisfy into dice of
uniform size. Shred the cabbage, mince
the onion. Put all into a pot, cover
with boiling sailed water, drop in a bit
of soda no larger than "a Lima bean,
and cook gently for twenty minutes.
Drain well and turn the vegetables in
to the soup stock. Rub the tomatoes
through a colander and add them with
the parsley. Cook half al hour, keep
ing the contents of the pot at a slow,
steady boil all the time; put in the sugar
and pour into the tureen.
WHEAT FOR POULTRY.
Wheat is one of the best grains for
poultry and at the present price n of
the cheapest. Too many poultry keep
ers make their hens live almost exclu-
siyely on cor during the winter when
the ground IS frozen OF covered with
snow so that the insect food, scattering
seeds and green stuff is cut off. Fowls.
like most other animals like a variey of
food and it is good economy to provide
several kinds of grain, cabbages, turn
nips " heets; beside a daily mornig
feed of warm dough made of a variety
of ground grain and an occasional feed
of refuse meat. But if one kind OF
grain is selected for the main depend
ence let it be good sweet wheat. 1t
gives growth and egg material above
any other kind. Oats are a little too
chaffy, rye is not usually liked well,
nor is barley liked as well as wheat,
corn is too fattening for laying hens
and far inferior to wheat for growing
chickens. Wheat is now kept by the
large grain dealers in all the eastern
cities to supply the demand for poultry
feed and is bought in car loads from the
west so it has no fancy price attached.
Try it, if you have and you will
probably try it again.
FIvErGooD RULES. -
1t would be well to remember the fol
lowing rules in listening to evil re-
ports:-
l.. To hear as little as possible Of
what ever is to the prejudice of others
2. To believe nothing evil of the
kind till you are absolutely forced to it
3. Never to drink in the spirit of one
who %circulates an i'll report.
4. Always to moderate, as far as yot
can, the unkindness which is expressed
towards others.
5. Always to believe that if the
other side were heard, a very different
account would be given of the matter
FOR, THE AxLEs.
Castor oil is an excellent lubricatol
for axles, but used alone may gum too
much. This is corrected by the add.
ton of refined coal-oil Chat used fol
lamps), or lard; the c~oal-oil is thu
better. Some wagons are yet made
unprovided with metal shields or'.thim.
bles," being banded with steel; for these
some tallow may be used, as it is one o.
the best of lubricants when iron an(
wood are brought together. Pine ta1
is a good addition to the lubricant fol
wagon axles, and is a part of most o
the "axle greases'' sold. Plumbago i
another good addition; its fine particles
fill the small irregularities in the op
posing surfaces, thus making then
smoother. A mixture oflard andplum.
bago is good for the journals of reapers
mowers, etc. For carriages nothing il
better than castor oil and a very littl,
lard-oil or refined coal-oil.
THE TINE TO EAT FISH.
Provided you did not eat too heart.
of supper tho night before, for break
fast you may have almost any kind o
dried fish, or even fresh fish broiled
If he has enjoyed a good nights rest
even q dyspeptic might enjoy kippere'
herfings or a salmon steak, with boile,
eggs to follow, for breakfast. Fnnal
haddock is quite a breakfast dish
Fish for dinner comes in we'll befor
meat, but fish dinner pure and simpl
is better still. Fish contains MOI
water than meat; and for this reason
and many others, the less to
drink one has with a fish dinner the bel
ter.
ID. MULTUM IN PARvo.
Open a book account with your farm